Left hip evaluated

And a summary...

Thursday RUN 6 miles, cut park short with MayZ then out n back, about 56 mins
Saturday RUN 9.5 miles in 90 mins, no garmin!
Sunday RUN 5.5 miles in 50 mins, garminless
Monday nothing, had to drive in for hip appt

And off course BIKE COMMUTING Thursday and Friday

My bleak depressive-ish mood continues, but lets break it down.

The running over the weekend came after I mailed the 235 back to Kansas on Thursday. I miss it! The new one should arrive shortly, already shipped out to me according to the tracking. This one had better work, after paying for the device, paying to have it shipped back at $17, and I think getting a refurbished one...

The runs felt OK, hip pain and relatively low energy. But not misery.

As for nutrition, in the end I did start and SCD reset Saturday morning. I started with lean meats, carrots, eggs, and now up to pureed zucchini, green beans, butternut, butter. Did try blue berries and queso fresco cheese (low lactose and not aged, I think). Last night tried canteloup melon and realized last night was only 3 days -- SLOW DOWN. So today full SCD as described, Let the minor blurpy from the melon subside.

I'm super happy to report that my awful leg swelling and bloating is reduced and I go to bed feeling mostly normal! The leg and ankle swelling was surprisingly bad -- my capillary refill time seemed delayed, my socks almost had swelling flowing over them, total cankles, uncomfortable to even walk or move or anything. And every night my gut was swollen, watery sounding, pained. No "output" symptoms, however, still in the T4 range. Looking back and thinking I did have really itchy nose and skin on my back. I thought it was dry skin, could it have been the histamines in my food? High levels in kombucha, kefir, nutritional yeast, tomato products, raw egg whites (my daily fluff treat), coconut aminos, canned fish -- all foods I was ramping up on and eating more and more and more of in the past few weeks.

So I've given up all those foods for a minimum of 10 days (full moon on the 11th) to see what happens. Then reintroduce. Kombucha?!

I'm reading a book on elimination diets (eliminate the symptoms, not the foods she says) that suggests 3-4 weeks of a minimal diet which I'm pretty much at right now. Could I make it 3-4 weeks on this? Well, if I'm not running... nice segue....

Saw Dr Lytle yesterday, add in a tag for DrL, After a brief discussion (and he remembered me from the Club, that impressed me) the evaluation started. See if I can get it all.
--when he brings my left knee to my chest, it's a few inches (or fingerwidths?) away from my chest, then my pelvis tips up like it shouldn't.
--when I bend into the cat stretch, my lumbar spine is bent the wrong way. Instead of a hump it's concave, as evidenced by a photo and a pencil for a straightedge.
--when I bend into a stretch to touch my toes, I'm subconsciously guarding,
--My lunge test is normal but less mobility on the left side
--when I'm lying on my right side, and he pushed into my left hip, it HURTS. I had him test, the right side doesn't.

Results/Conclusions
--My lumbar spine from L1-L6 is fused in adhesions. It's not moving, probably near or at the top of the chain of problems. He needs to break up the adhesions to start.
--my left hip has a 25% reduction in mobility in the test he used, tight muscles likely and again adhesions
--The guarding is coming from the lumbar spine, my brain 'knows' there's a problem and I slow down while bending over. He had me do this twice without telling me why, to double check me.
--In addition to the lumbar problem, he suspects a hip pathology -- stress fracture or cartilage tear -- but that's to be evaluated later after a few appts to work on the other problems.

Ugh.

Can I run? Yes, if I take it easy and no hard efforts. Is it worth it? Probably not.

And after a night of very interrupted sleep, hip and back pain, I skipped today's run. I'm now all the more aware and the denial stripped away.

Injured. Again.